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W2K and MAC OS9 Flood Root Nameservers?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the unintentional-dos dept.

wizzy writes "Irelands toplevel domain registry has a notice on Microsoft and Apple DHCP clients sending dynamic DNS updates per RFC2136. The problem is they are not sufficiently careful about where they send it if they are in RFC1918 space - usually used for behind-firewall addressing, which is where they usually are.. This is resulting in bogus updates being sent at the rate of nearly one million an hour to root nameservers, only to be rejected - as reported on the NANOG mailing list."

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  1. first posters are momos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP!

  3. Great. Yet Another Bandaid by fm6 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Ah, the Firewall approach to security. Don't fix the problem. Just slap on another bandaid. Paging Captain Murphy!

    Why bother with firewalls at all? Private internets do the same thing more effectively with less hassle. Plus users get to use services that just don't work with firewalls. The only purpose of firewalls seems to be to accomodate people who can't be bothered switching to DHCP.

  4. Re:Well, of course Microsoft did... by blixel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is way off topic of course...
    Found it

    Good to hear...

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  5. Re:Firewalls by barberio · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    'liestochildren', part of the act of teaching, meaning 'This isnt actualy how the thing works, but its a suitable enougth aproximation for a quick explanation'

  6. Minor, off-topic nitpick about the headline by inkswamp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't write PERL... I write Perl or perl as its users and programmers prefer.

    I also don't write MAC. I write Mac or Macintosh as its users and programmers prefer.

    Just a nitpick, but it's annoying nonetheless and something that I see done more frequently on Slashdot than anywhere else. Besides, it's technically inaccurate as MAC is, I believe, something entirely different.

    --Rick

    --
    --Rick "If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why."
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